Tuesday, the beautiful people at The Literary Lab will be posting up something I wrote. How cool is that?!

UPDATE: This is the link!

Please head over to check it out. I had notes for more, but wanted to keep it as succinct and straightforward.

Interested in seeing more? Lemme know.
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Inspired by the hooplah over Amy Chua's Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother, Domey held an exhibition of critiquing extremes: Tiger Mother vs. Nice. The preference of those who commented leaned heavily toward the Tiger Mother style.

The opening of my "William the Goat" short got the Nice treatment. And I learned things about my piece that I didn't know before. Things that I might not have learned if I had gotten the Tiger Mother. Because Nice accentuates the positives and Tiger the negatives. Achievements versus failures.

From the comments section, most advocated a balanced approach. Call me William Blake, but I think that the tension of the extremes is necessary.

We can discuss that later.

I'm writing about how a writer should react to the critique. What do you do when you get a response you didn't expect or want? Hint: You do not throw a chair.

Be on the lookout for my guest post tomorrow morning.
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Here's a preview. Of course, the X's will be removed on LitLab's post.